Former Pioneer Allen named to team’s hall of fame

Published 12:27 pm, Saturday, July 14, 2012

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Former Wayland Baptist University Pioneer baseball player Eddie Allen has been inducted into the hall of fame of the Fort Collins Foxes.

The Foxes are a wooden bat summer collegiate team featuring top collegiate players from around the country. They are a member of the Mountain Collegiate Baseball League.

Allen, who played at Wayland from 2008-11, was with the Foxes for two seasons. In 2009, he batted .282 with 14 steals in 14 attempts. “His flawless play at third base and shortstop earned him the team’s gold glove award that year,” according to a Foxes press release.

The next season he batted .366 and again was perfect on the base paths, stealing 20 bases in 20 tries. Allen was a unanimous choice in winning the 2010 player of the year award and helped lead the Foxes to a first-place finish.

“He always played the game the right way and had the respect of teammates and opposing teams alike,” the press release stated.

Allen was the sixth member of the Foxes’ Hall of Fame, which started in 2010. All inductees played and/or coached a minimum of two seasons with the team.

Allen, who earned his degree in business administration from Wayland last August, recently was hired as a sixth-grade math teacher in his hometown of Mesquite where he lives with his wife, Kami, also a Wayland graduate and a second-grade teacher.